From first question to final detail.

Interiors are not a layer added at the end. We design them alongside the shell — the position of a window seat, the weight of a door, the temperature of a room in February. Elena leads this work from our Milan studio.

We collaborate with a small circle of makers across Europe: joiners, plasterers, brass founders and weavers. Most pieces are drawn for a specific room and made within a day of the site.

Some of our best work begins with something already standing: a 1930s warehouse, an abandoned farmhouse, a post-war office that has outlived its plan. We survey carefully, keep what performs, and remove only what cannot be repaired.

Our approach is measured in carbon as well as character — we can model both, and often find that keeping a frame is the most ambitious move available.

Amara leads our work at the scale of the street and the neighbourhood: housing masterplans, town-centre strategies and public-realm frameworks. The questions are different, but the method is the same — observe first, then propose.

We work with municipalities, housing associations and developers, often alongside landscape architects, transport planners and community groups.

We reserve time each year for research that has no client: studies of low-carbon stone construction, the architecture of shade, and the ways Northern European towns are adapting to hotter summers.

The partners teach at the Royal Danish Academy and Politecnico di Milano, and we publish our findings openly. Research keeps the practice from repeating itself.